tide command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

tide: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tide: command not found

Solutions to tide: command not found

How To Fix tide: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tide is provided by xtide package.

xtide is:

XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide variety of formats. Graphs, text listings, and calendars can be generated, or a tide clock can be provided on your desktop.

XTide can work with the X window system, plain text terminals, or the web. This is accomplished with three separate programs: the interactive interface (xtide), the non-interactive or command line interface (tide), and the web interface (xttpd).

The algorithm that XTide uses to predict tides is used by the National Ocean Service in the U.S. It is significantly more accurate than the simple tide clocks that can be bought in novelty stores. However, it takes more to predict tides accurately than just a spiffy algorithm – data are required for every tidal prediction location. This package provides a sample data set for only one location so you can try out the package, but anything useful requires the data packaged in the xtide-data package (or downloaded from the XTide ftp site).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install xtide

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install xtide.

sudo apt -y install xtide

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install xtide

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix tide command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.